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Taco truck in Winters, CA

Hearty Veggie Burrito

Shasta Lake

Blue heeler turned red heeler

Shasta Lake

Winters has a taco truck, and it's open at 10:00 on Sunday mornings! It also has a little mini strip of town, and four gas stations. We ate our burritos in the van and got goin. The speakers are blown and we have like ten tapes, some of the doors open spontaneously while we are moving and the border guard on our way into the USA us why we didn't have a better car, but Christina the van is a pretty special old gal, and spending our days in her in the highway is good. The 5 is beautiful. The PCH is super beautiful, but the 5 has a real heartland vibe going on, plus it is a thrill the climb and descend mountain passes in a giant steel barrel.

Bean Baja chalupa

Dusk Driving

After taking a pretty committed detour to Shasta Lake, we had to hustle to try and make up some miles before dark. We saw signage for fast food in Weed, California, and what road trip is complete without Taco Bell!? We did a face mask and recited Castro's famous filibuster "History Will Absolve Me" while we waited for our drive through, and when we unwrapped our long awaited chimi-ritos and queso-chongas, they were undercooked and filled with meat... So we gambled and lost on that one, but also, we have mostly been eating the most straight-up, awesome Mexican food for the last two weeks, so that teaches us.

My name is Macey Budgell and in 2005 I started a vegetarian burrito shop in Vancouver, Canada, called Budgies Burritos. Before Budgies, there weren't really any burrito shops in Vancouver; at least none with a good amount of veggie options. Back then, my friends and I would do road trips down the west coast, skateboarding, going to shows and constantly searching out cheap, good burrito/taco shops with different veggie/vegan options. We would even drive over the border on a quick trip to Bellingham to hit up Taco Bell on the regular. We didn't even have a Taco Bell!!

Since Budgies has opened, Vancouver has become home to a bunch of new burrito shops and taquerias, which is awesome, but I still love traveling down the coast in search of cool burrito/taco shops and checking out their veggie/vegan options. Actually, no matter where I travel, I am always looking for rad burrito shops. This blog is about where to find some of the coolest burrito/taco spots with no-meat options for a reasonable price, and to shamelessly plug mine and my friends' bands.

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